Hello friends. Here's a history of how our logos came to be.
The original logo was made by @Spelling Bee, I believe. When we moved from PHPBB to XenForo, I had to change the theme, and the old logo (which had the blue background gradient as a part of the image) didn't work anymore. He made me a much nicer high-resolution copy with a transparent bg which looked like this.
We kept this logo without variation for over 2 years before switching to our own theme. Briefly, the logo appeared as this.
During this time I probed around for a new logo and tried my luck with a few resources. I asked @Venusaur to try her hand at once, and I quite liked the result.
However, she got beat out by some Pakistani guy on Fiverr. I tried to explain to him what the site was and how it had nothing to do with New Zealand and his first drafts of an image looked like this, with two variations.
I obviously went with the second one, but I never got a vector of it. The dude literally closed his account before I could get mine. This was a guy with like, 4 years and 9000 5 star reviews on Fiverr and the motherfucker dropped off the goddamn planet right before completing my order. Luckily, our gay super hero @Ronald Raygun traced it into vector format in a bunch of different styles and that's what you see today.
For a while now I've been abusing the lovely and beautiful and charismatic and artistically talented @Valiant for new images. She, for instance, has traced my personal logo into vector format.
She also drafted from scratch the Lolcow Wiki logo.
This was thematically done in key with my personal logo and the KF logo, which is a very simple set of shapes and a soft, vividly-colored gradient.
In the spirit of me being shit at art and not wanting to spend $5, I'm opening up our vectors so anyone wanting to help me out can see how others were done.
I need three logos. The requirements for the logos are:
Lolcow Wiki
Thanks for all the love guys.
The original logo was made by @Spelling Bee, I believe. When we moved from PHPBB to XenForo, I had to change the theme, and the old logo (which had the blue background gradient as a part of the image) didn't work anymore. He made me a much nicer high-resolution copy with a transparent bg which looked like this.
We kept this logo without variation for over 2 years before switching to our own theme. Briefly, the logo appeared as this.
During this time I probed around for a new logo and tried my luck with a few resources. I asked @Venusaur to try her hand at once, and I quite liked the result.
However, she got beat out by some Pakistani guy on Fiverr. I tried to explain to him what the site was and how it had nothing to do with New Zealand and his first drafts of an image looked like this, with two variations.
I obviously went with the second one, but I never got a vector of it. The dude literally closed his account before I could get mine. This was a guy with like, 4 years and 9000 5 star reviews on Fiverr and the motherfucker dropped off the goddamn planet right before completing my order. Luckily, our gay super hero @Ronald Raygun traced it into vector format in a bunch of different styles and that's what you see today.
For a while now I've been abusing the lovely and beautiful and charismatic and artistically talented @Valiant for new images. She, for instance, has traced my personal logo into vector format.
She also drafted from scratch the Lolcow Wiki logo.
This was thematically done in key with my personal logo and the KF logo, which is a very simple set of shapes and a soft, vividly-colored gradient.
In the spirit of me being shit at art and not wanting to spend $5, I'm opening up our vectors so anyone wanting to help me out can see how others were done.
I need three logos. The requirements for the logos are:
- The file must be SVG. I need an Icon and a With Text version. Text should be traced, not including the font as text.
- The logo must be a similar to the Kiwi Farms logo: A simple shape, with a simple single-color gradient. It should also appear "serious business".
- The logo should feature the site's name as text.
- The fonts used in the logo should be: a) known by name, b) free for commercial use.
- You're surrendering your work by giving it to me and I can use it to print on t-shirts that I strangle autistics with if I want to.
Lolcow Wiki
- The Lolcow Wiki already has a symbol, but no text enabled version.
- I'd like it styled like the Wikipedia logo, but with no subtext.
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- Feel free to touch up the icon if you feel you can do better.
- Needs both a logo and fonts.
- Logo should probably be a milk bottle, like this: http://i.imgur.com/mJfUme1.png Maybe a white gradient, going from almost-pure-white to a light gray near the bottom?
- Font should be some fancy as fuck news lettering, a la New York Times: http://i.imgur.com/wHhhM1q.png
- Need both a logo and fonts.
- Not as important or serious about this. I intend for this to be a funny free service for those daring enough to trust my email hosting services. In the future, all my services email traffic will be handled by mx.lolcow.email instead of mx.kiwifarms.net
- I have no idea what to use for the logo. Should be something cow related, I guess. I'm totally open to ideas here. Surprise me.
Thanks for all the love guys.
